tassajara tales

R E L A X - I'm not giving up meat. I am, however, trying out several vegetarian recipes from the Tassajara Cookbook in preparation for the week long visit of my grew-up-vegetarian mother, who now eats meat, but not much.

This is the Sesame Marinade for firm tofu that I'm testing. The only bit from my garden is the scallions, but that's enough to qualify it for the blog, right? Right. This is MY universe, people! [wink]

Anyway, these tofu triangles will marinade overnight, then I'll bake them and pack them for a road trip north to Sebastepol, where we're picking up 2 boxes of bees for the backyard hives.*


*Last years hive collapsed, reasons unknown. The new batch of bees is 'survivor stock' so we'll see how this season goes. Let's hope for lots of honey!

ceanotheus cache

The backyard ceanotheus is in full bloom, and the feral hive living in our eaves is taking full advantage.

CGplot - way before and before

Yeah, I'm way behind on updates. Here's the skinny:
I got the opportunity to switch plots in the community garden. Previous members decided to exit, and being the newest member, I got first right of refusal of their abandoned plot. Which is in a much sunnier position than my plot was, so I jumped on it. They'd been inactive gardeners for a while, so the plot was pretty much an Oaxalis swimming pool, but I cleared it and revitalized it with backbreaking tilling and mixing in of new compost.

Well worth it.